Who’s Done It?
Join over 530 Cal entrepreneurs and faculty who have made the Pledge.
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Vigyan Singhal
M.S. ’94, Ph.D. ’96
Founder, Oski Technology (acquired by NVIDIA)
Pledge fulfilled in 2023
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Zubin Nagarvala
’02
Founder, Upward.net (acquired by Jobcase)
Pledge fulfilled in 2023
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Lisa Guerra
PhD ’96
Partner, SV2; Co-Founder, Victrio (acquired by Verint)
Pledge fulfilled in 2022
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Jamie Robertson
M.B.A. ’17
Co-founder, Cragmont Partners LLC
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Dan Kanivas
M.B.A. ’12
Founder, Triple Summit Advisors
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Yuguang (Brian) Yuan
Founder, Mega Gear Robotics
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Jeffrey Zavattero
’88
CEO, Goodfill LLC
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Cassi Janakos
’11
Co-founder and COO, Healthy Horizons
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Ted Tabacco
M.B.A. ’21
Co-Founder & CEO, SpacePlace
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Olaseni Bello
M.B.A.’21
Co-founder, CarpeMed
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Yannell Selman
M.B.A. ’21
Founder & CEO, Cultiveit
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Asif Mohammad
M.Eng. ’21, M.B.A. ’21
Founder & CEO, SocratiQ
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Jay (Zijie) Zhao
’21
Co-founder, College Leap
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Justin Duan
’21
VoiceOps
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Kevin Hartman
M.I.D.S. ’20
Founder, CarbyAI
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Stephen Etter
’83, M.B.A. ’89
Lecturer, Haas School of Business; Founder, Greyrock Capital
Pledge fulfilled in 2019
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James Hong
’95, M.B.A. ’99
Co-Founder, HOTorNOT; Angel Investor/Advisor
Pledge fulfilled in 2014
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Lawrence Johnson
’72
CEO, InvestorLogic LLC
Pledge fulfilled in 2019
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Mitsuru Igarashi
’89
Founder, Simplex, Inc.
Pledge fulfilled in 2020
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Marc Bensadoun
Ph.D. ’91
Seed-stage investor and advisor
Pledge fulfilled in 2018
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David Hanzel
’78, Ph.D. ’89
Chief Science Officer, Naked Biome (acquired by Symbiome)
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Brian Liou
’13
Co-Founder, Ralph Inc.
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Augie Rakow
’95
Palo Alto Legal Support
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Satish Polisetti
M.I.M.S. ’11
Co-Founder & CEO, Polymorph (acquired by Walmart)
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Nicholas Rudder
Founder, ScholarSite
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David Kirn
’85
Co-Founder and CEO, 4D Molecular Therapeutics; Co-Founder, IGNITE Immunotherapy
Pledge fulfilled in 2021
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Bobby Yazdani
’87
Founder and Managing Partner, Signatures Capital and Cota Capital
Pledge fulfilled in 2020
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Zach Merritt
M.I.D.S. ’19
Founder, Kindu
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Kal Deutsch
M.B.A. ’93
Co-founder & CEO, DealEngine
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Fahed Al Essa
M.B.A.’19, M.P.H. ’19
Co-founder & CEO, Mayv
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Vikram Chandra
Co-founder & CEO, Granthika Co.
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Yaw Ofosu Ansong, Jr.
Co-founder & CEO, KovaDx
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Emon Motamedi
B.S. ’14, B.A. ’14
Founder, Florian
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Lauri Kibby
M.B.A. ’86
Co-Founder and CFO, Kings Garden; Co-Founder and Chairwoman, Endourage
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Vikram Sreekanti
’15, Ph.D. ’20
Founder & CEO, Spiral Labs
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James Tong
’09
Co-Founder, Nomi
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Lizi Feng
’13
Co-Founder, DrVigo and Uni Precision, Inc.
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Giles Templeman
M.B.A. ’20
Co-Founder, Callisto
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Shihui Mao
M.B.A. ’20
Co-Founder, Callisto
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Santiago Freyria
M.B.A. ’20
Founder, ExVivoGen
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Linda Chow
M.B.A.’19
Co-Founder and CEO, CaringDr
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Lindsey Hoell
Co-founder and CEO, Dispatch Goods
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Yao-Chieh “Jeff” Hu
M.Eng ’20
Co-Founder and CEO, Turing Chain
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Sol Eun
M.Eng ’20
Founder and CEO, UI Flow
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Matthew Cooper
M.B.A. ’10
Founder and CEO, Carmenta Bioscience (acquired by Progenity)
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Ryan Chan
’13
Founder and CEO, UpKeep
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Farshad Ghaffari
’99
Co-Founder, Entreda (acquired by Smarsh)
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Zahid Hussain
Division Deputy, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
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Erin Mastopietro
’10
Co-Founder, Dope Dog
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Michael Olson
’91, M.S. ’92
Co-Founder and CSO, Cloudera
Pledge fulfilled in 2020
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Angela Lau
M.B.A. ’16
Co-Founder, Seventh AI
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Ludwig Schoenack
M.B.A. ’19
Co-Founder, Drivekyte
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Wesley Jackson
’00, M.S. ’05, Ph.D. ’06
Founder and CEO, Valitor Inc
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Atanas Bakalov
M.B.A. ’19
Founder and CEO, Knowdeon
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Rahul Deedwania
’10
Co-Founder, BreakoutIQ
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Amy Fan
M.B.A. ’19, M.P.H. ’19
Co-Founder, Twentyeight Health
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Jessica Green
M.S. ’94, Ph.D. ’01
Co-Founder and CEO of Phylagen Inc
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Venkat Venkatasubramanian
M.B.A. ’16
Founder, SwiftMotion
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Will Huang
’17, M.Eng. ’18
Co-Founder and CEO, Pengram
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Andy Yang
’00
CEO, Indiegogo
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Art Amador
M.B.A. ’16
Founder and COO, EquBot
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Jeremy Hammer
’19
Founder, CatalistX
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Emily Walling
M.B.A. ’08
Head of Marketing, Portfolia
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Saswat Mishra
E.M.B.A. ’19
Founder and CEO, California Memory Technologies Inc
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David Pastewka
’12
CEO, Drapr; Co-Founder, Twindom
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John McMahon
M.S. ’72, M.B.A. ’73
Chief Marketing Officer, Allium Vitalis
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Benjamin Chang
’88
Glint, Head of Information Security & Compliance
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Jason Bellet
’14
Co-Founder, Eko
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Peter Wysinski
’14
Co-Founder, AxleHire; Co-Founder & CEO, kSense
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Kevin Ubilla
’16
Founder, Omni Astrobiotics
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Matthew Sinks
’15
Program China, UnBank Ventures
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Shawn Tsao
’11
Co-Founder, Caviar (acquired by Square)
Pledge fulfilled in 2019
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Joyce Arellano-Bravo
’98
Co-Founder, WeSolve
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Dinesh Kumar
M.B.A. ’17
COO, Promaxo
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Dave Alpert
’78, M.Arch. ’86
CEO and Co-Founder, Geopogo
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Jason Wang
’09
Co-Founder, Caviar (acquired by Square); Venture Partner, Beluga Capital
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Dhawal Mujumdar
M.I.M.S. ’11
Co-Founder, Polymorph (acquired by Walmart)
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Charles Huang
’93
Co-Founder, RedOctane (acquired by Activision); Co-Founder, Indigo 7
Pledge fulfilled in 2014